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By Julia L. Mickenberg

on the top of the chilly warfare, dozens of radical and innovative writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and lecturers cooperated to create and disseminate kid's books that challenged the established order. studying from the Left offers the 1st old review in their paintings. Spanning from the Twenties, while either kid's ebook publishing and American Communism have been turning into major at the American scene, to the overdue Nineteen Sixties, while early life who were raised on the various books during this learn unequivocally rejected the values of the chilly warfare, Learning from the Left indicates how "radical" values and concepts that experience now develop into mainstream (including cooperation, interracial friendship, serious considering, the distinction of work, feminism, and the background of marginalized people), have been communicated to youngsters in repressive occasions. a variety of renowned and seriously acclaimed kid's books, many via former academics and others who were blacklisted as a result of their political views, made normal the tips that McCarthyism tended to name "subversive." those books, approximately historical past, technology, and modern social conditions-as good as imaginitive works, technological know-how fiction, and well known women' secret series-were on hand to youngsters: such a lot may be present in public and college libraries, and a few may possibly also be bought in study rooms via e-book golf equipment that catered to academic audiences. Drawing upon broad interviews, archival examine, and hundreds and hundreds of kid's books released from the Twenties in the course of the Nineteen Seventies, Learning from the Left deals a historical past of the kid's ebook in mild of the background of the heritage of the Left, and a brand new standpoint at the hyperlinks among the outdated Left of the Thirties and the recent Left of the 1960s.

Winner of the Grace Abbott e-book Prize of the Society for the heritage of youngsters and Youth

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